date night

Last night we had a date night, but I'll get to that later - I've got to go through things chronologically...

First of all, a couple weeks ago I think I said something about having a bad day and I was going to post about it later - I was going to take a pic of the 'damage' but never got around to it, so I'll just go ahead.  After getting groceries one day I was bringing some things to our chest freezer in the basement.  When I opened the lid I noticed some water dripping.  Now, my highly scientific mind (ha ha) knows that liquid and ice are two different forms of H2O and the idea of a freezer is to keep things in the 'ice' form and there should NOT be liquid in there.  Here's the kicker, I had LOTS (like almost half the freezer) of milk in there that I had worked very hard to pump and save up.  I checked the box on top and the bags in there were thawed.  I was devasted and panicked - called Mike at work just bawling my eyes out.  "I invested so much time, effort, and emotion into this...I was going to save us money by not needing to buy as much formula..."  There are a select few of you that understand what a huge deal this was.  :)

Well, after taking a few minutes to calm down and further investigate, it wasn't a total loss.  Thankfully, I caught it before everything was totally spoiled.  The deal with breastmilk is that once thawed you cannot refreeze it, and you need to use it within a couple days.  So, there were a few boxes full that were still frozen enough to move to the upright freezer in the garage.  Everything else I put in the fridge and used as much as possible over the next couple days.  So in the end we basically lost one big tupperware container full.  It's hard to throw any away, but it could have been SOOOO much worse.  Do you think I've learned my lesson to not freak out right away about a situation and wait to see how the Lord will work things out?  Probably not.  :)

Okay, on to our life more recently.  My sister and her family were in town for a short visit at the end of last week.  I think I posted about our Girls Night.  Their visit was timed so that they could go to our Tiemeyer (my mom's side) Family Reunion over the weekend.  My aunt and uncle hosted the event at their cottage on Half Moon Lake.  We went for the day on Saturday.  This family is quite spread out, so it's hard to get everyone together and we were still missing a few, but alot were able to come and it was a nice time.  Great weather, great food, great company.  Here's a pic of my mom with her siblings.  (Left to right: Carol, John, Nancy, Kathy, Beth, Joy, Judy.)

Last night we had a date night with my brothers and sisters-in-law.  They are kidless right now, so we got a babysitter and joined them for a night out!  Mike and Emily's kids are at her parents this week for their church's Vacation Bible School and it coincides with Mike and Emily's anniversary.  Eric and Lea Anne's kids are at her parents for two weeks for their Vacation Bible School and Lea Anne is busy taking a class at MSU every day.  So anyways, we figured we'd better take advantage of the situation!  It was a fun evening.  (Left to right:  me, Mike, Lea Anne, Eric, Emily, Mike.  All I've got to say for myself is that our AC is not working, it's really hot, and I could barely stand to get ready to go out...)